- Tk 15cr granted for each constituency
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) yesterday approved a project granting Tk 15 crore for rural infrastructure development work in each respective constituency. The project of Tk 4,691 crore has been taken to carry out rural infrastructure development works in the constituencies of lawmakers “irrespective of party affiliation.” Ecnec at a meeting approved a [...] (local) - SP Kohinoor ?disappears?
Police failed to arrest suspended police officer Kohinoor Mian even five months after the home ministry suspended him following a criminal case filed in connection with beating up of a woman in Dhanmondi on March 12, 2006. The suspension came on October 4 last year after a Dhaka court in September took a case into cognisance. [...] (local) - SP did more than grabbing lands
Police Superintendent Mizanur Rahman who was closed to the headquarters last month on charges of attempting to grab other peoples’ farmlands in Gopalganj, had some other alleged nefarious operations as well, according to the Police Headquarters sources. A Chittagong based fertiliser trader on the 1st of this month filed a written allegation with the inspector general [...] (local) - Pro-people projects of BNP govt won?t be stopped: PM
The present government will not stop any pro-people project and programme, which were initiated during the last BNP-led four-party alliance government. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said this when Director General of World Health Organization (WHO) Dr Margaret Chan called on her at the PM’s office yesterday morning. Dr Chan congratulated the PM as she has been named [...] (local) - Padma Bridge tender likely by early Apr
Tender for the $2.4 billion Padma Multi-purpose Bridge are likely to be invited late this month or in early April, sources in the Economic Relations Division said. The communications ministry in cooperation with a donor group led by the World Bank almost completed chalking out bidders’ pre-qualification criteria for building the bridge that will have both [...] (local) - BNP MPs walk out of JS
BNP-led opposition lawmakers yesterday staged a brief walkout from parliament in protest against placing a bill seeking to rename Shaheed Ziaur Rahman University, Barisal, as Barisal University. Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid tabled the bill in line with a cabinet decision to rename all establishments named after Ziaur Rahman. The past BNP government named the [...] (local) - Contempt rule on Prothom Alo for report on HC bail
The High Court yesterday issued a contempt rule on the Prothom Alo Editor and Publisher Matiur Rahman and reporter Mizanur Rahman Khan for publishing a report on granting wholesale anticipatory bail and bail for convicts. The rule asked them to explain within four weeks why contempt proceedings should not be drawn against them. A division bench [...] (local) - Court wants Babar produced Mar 14, Mithu today
A court in Habiganj yesterday ordered that former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar be produced before it on March 14 in SAMS Kibria killing case. The same day the court will hear the Criminal Investigation Department’s prayer for Babar to be placed on a fresh remand. Judicial Magistrate Shamsul Islam passed the order. He also [...] (local) - Grenade ?hurler? held
A significant headway in the former finance minister SAMS Kibria killing case is likely as law enforcers on Sunday arrested suspected grenade thrower Mizanur Rahman Mithu of banned Islamist outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-al Islami. The other suspected grenade thrower, Badrul Alam Mizan, who is in Habiganj jail, however claims he only “accompanied Mithu, who hurled a grenade at [...] (local) - 83pc salary hike for high-ups proposed
The cabinet yesterday approved six proposals to increase salaries and privileges of the president, the prime minister, the speaker and the chief justice up to 83 percent, consistent with the pay hike of civil servants. The salaries and benefits of the Supreme Court judges of the Appellate and the High Court divisions, deputy speaker, ministers, state [...] (local)
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